The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

The only reason to write is from love.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact